#IssueTime

[postitforward]

Today’s world is a difficult one. It is becoming evermore digital and can be all the lonelier for it. And with it can come anxiety in abundance. But we have someone who we think might be able to help: Jasmine Marie, CEO and Founder of black girls breathing®, who is here to explore the many big questions in this strange new world.

We will be partnering with @blackgirlsbreathing, a safe space for Black women and girls to manage their mental health and reflect on and heal their trauma through breathwork and community. They aim to offer free and accessible mental health resources to one million Black women and girls by 2025.

COVID-19 harmed us in more ways than one, and some more than others. It widened the gap of accessible mental health resources available to Black and Brown communities at the same time many in these same groups were experiencing isolation, compacted grief, and depression. Jasmine’s work is focused on providing preventative tools to combat a taxed nervous system, and black girls breathing® is here to provide free and accessible mental health resources to Black women and girls by offering not just breathwork, but a community. So if you’re a Black woman or girl, take the pledge to take one action to better your mental health by grabbing your free mental health toolkit and signing up here. And don't forget to ask her a question, and join us back here on March 27th to see her answers.

Want to learn more about @blackgirlsbreathing?

Check out their website!

Breathe with us on March 27th @12pm EDT during their Mindful Monday Breathwork for Anxiety session on Tumblr Live

Get to know black girls breathing's founder, Jasmine Marie on her Tumblr Spotlight

Take the pledge with black girls breathing®

[action]

What would you say to young voters who are disengaged and don’t think they need to vote?

I am concerned about people in this demographic who may be targeted by disinformation that makes them want to stay home. Thanks!

Since the 2020 general election, at least 8 million young people will have turned 18 and are eligible to vote in this year’s General Election. My School Votes is excited to work with a new generation of voters ready to get involved in their communities on the issues they care about. 

There is so much at stake. This November, all 435 seats in the U.S. House of Representatives and thirty-five Senate seats (about a third) are up for election.

If young people are engaged this year, they have the power to make their voices heard in the 2022 Midterm Elections across the country.  

Through monthly trainings, students acquire organizing skills, connect national issues to the local level, and learn how to develop highly effective student-led registration campaigns capable of registering over 90% of a given student body. 

First, head over to weall.vote/tumblr to check your voter registration status. Second, ask one to three friends to pledge to vote with you.

It’s people like you who will make all the difference this fall—whether that’s by casting a ballot or by organizing your communities to make sure all your neighbors can do the same.

[historyandmemes]

Hi guys, 

Harvard recently released an Implicit Bias Test which can supposedly uncover our unconscious biases. No, the test isn’t gonna deem you a terrible person. You can do different categories like -- race, sexuality, ability, religion, etc.. 

It’s simply a tool to uncover the ways in which society has taught us to think in manners that may negatively impact one another. These same learned patterns of bias materialize through our everyday interactions, and reinforce the very issue at hand as others interact and observe such bias.

Anyways, there’s gonna be an IssueTime about it tomorrow on @action if you have any questions. If you’re a skeptic, go ask industry experts some tough questions -- I’m all for holding information under scrutiny! 

Also, don’t forget ... 

[glblctzn]

Today on World Refugee Day, we commemorate the courage, strength, and perseverance of refugees, asylum seekers, and internaly displaced people. There are currently over 65 million refugees in today’s world--the highest number in recorded history. They have been forced to flee their home due to life threatening conditions ranging from drought and famine to religious persecution or war. Now, more than ever, it is time to #StandWithRefugees and raise awareness to the plights and obstacles they face.

We hosted our first Issue Time dealing with how the global community can support, improve the position of and stand in solidarity with refugees, and communicate how and why refugees are human beings, just like us, first and foremost. Our panel, Madge Thomas, Deputy-Director of Global Policy and Advocacy, Global Citizen, Piper Perabo; Actress, Activist, and IRC Voice; International Rescue Committee, Elmo, Sesame Street Muppet, Sherrie Westin, EVP for Global Impact and Philanthropy, Sesame Workshop and Yasmine Sherif, Director of Education Cannot Wait, answered your questions here.

Looking for for some actions you can take right now?

- Millions of children around the world are in crisis -- because of conflicts and disasters, many of them will never learn to read or write, or even enter a classroom. Ahead of World Refugee Day, Global Citizen will host our first Issue Time panel on our Tumblr page. Sign the petition to ask world leaders to pledge to the Education Cannot Wait fund for kids in crisis.

- The worst humanitarian crisis since World War II has ripped apart families, left children out of school, destroyed homes and revealed some ugly sides of humanity. But many people around the world have continued to support and provide for refugees with open arms, whether they’re individuals or governments. Write a letter to a refugee to show your support.

- Globally over 65 million people are forcibly displaced. They have left everything behind, fleeing from conflict, violence and natural disasters. Ahead of World Refugee Day, Global Citizen will host our first Issue Time panel on our Tumblr page. Sign the petition to urge the 20 most powerful countries to protect and support refugees everywhere.

[zabrakian]

As a former heavy opioid user I can confirm that it IS a epidemic.

[plannedparenthood]

Should i even bother renewing my healthcare from the aca if theres a chance it will get repealed?

Yes, you should still enroll in coverage before the January 31 open enrollment deadline. When you enroll in coverage, you and the health insurance company enter into a contract that is generally binding for a year (no matter how the law changes). This means that if you enroll in coverage now then you will have coverage throughout 2017.

[refinery29]

Submit your questions for a new Issue Time on transgender body positivity! 

You can submit questions here until Wednesday 2/22. Answers will be posted on Refinery29′s tumblr Saturday 2/25. Anyone is welcome to participate, but we especially want to help transgender and nonbinary people of all genders.

And now, meet our panelists...

Rylan Jay Testa, Ph.D., Psychology Professor

Dr. Rylan Jay Testa is an Assistant Professor in the Psychology Department at Rhodes College and the Director of the Health Behavior and Disparities Lab. Dr. Testa is a clinical psychologist and transgender man whose research focuses on understanding and preventing self-destructive health-related behaviors, such as suicide, eating disorders, and substance abuse in marginalized communities.

Daniel Friedman, Founder of Bindle & Keep

Daniel Friedman is founder of Bindle & Keep, a NYC-based custom suit company serving all gender identities. He also costars in the HBO film SUITED which follows the stories of five gender nonconforming people in their journey to wear clothes that accurately reflect the way they feel. 

Justice Roe Williams, Executive Director of BodyImage4Justice & Fitness Coach for JusticeBodies

Justice Roe Williams is a published poet originally from Atlantic City, New Jersey.  He is a founding Director of BodyImage4Justice (BI4J), an holistic wellness and fitness program for the LGBTQ community that primarily focuses on Trans Bodies. Prior to his work at BI4J, Justice organized to free political prisoners for low income communities and young people in the South End, Dorchester, Jamaica Plain and Roxbury areas of Boston.

Aydian Dowling, CEO of Point5cc and Point of Pride

Aydian Dowling is a Transgender Activist and Entrepreneur, owner of Point5cc Clothing and President/Founder of Point of Pride, Non Profit. Aydian has documented his transition since 2009 via his Youtube Channel, ALionsFears, and is most commonly known to be the first Transgender Man on the cover of the worlds biggest mens magazine, Men’s Health.

Precious Davis, Diversity & Inclusion at Columbia College Chicago and LGBTQ Activist

Precious Davis is lauded nationally as an award winning diversity professional, social justice facilitator, and educator.  She currently is the Assistant Director of Diversity Recruitment Initiatives at Columbia College Chicago, her alma mater from which she received a BA in Liberal Arts. Precious currently implements and oversees the Campus Wide Diversity Initiative and is the first woman of color to hold this position.

Davis finds deep meaning in engaging individuals in conversations surrounding bias, bigotry, and prejudice in their communities on the basis and belief that humans can coexist with one another positively through the embracing of each other’s differences and the celebrating of  each others human diversity. With over 15 years of diversity training, leadership development, and social justice education experience Precious is a highly demanded speaker and panelist who has been featured at: The University of Chicago, Northwestern University, The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, The University of Michigan, The Chicago Community Trust, Reed College, Hampshire College, and Loyola University Chicago.

SUBMIT QUESTIONS HERE

[freedomforallamericans]

It was awesome joining @staff and @action for an #IssueTime event about #LGBT equality featuring Mayors Against LGBT Discrimination, including Jess Herbst, the first openly transgender official in Texas. See her answers – and more from the mayors of Pittsburgh, San Francisco, Providence, and West Lafayette, Indiana! https://action.tumblr.com/tagged/mayors

[theblackoutofficial]

Implicit Bias #IssueTime

What is “Implicit Bias”? Also known as Unconscious Bias, it is the "positive or negative mental attitude towards a person, thing, or group that a person holds at an subconscious level". Everyone has implicit biases. They range from harmless ( subconsciously having good/bad feelings about cats) to incredibly harmful (subconscious negative associations based anti-Blackness/racism/homophobia/etc). 

If you want to measure your implicit biases, we invite you to take the

Harvard Implicit Bias test.

After you take the test, we urge you to share your results with us! Talk to us, talk to your peers. What steps to you think we can all take to educate ourselves about the ways in which our implicit biases influence the way we interact with each other? 

We also invite you to participate in the Implicit Bias #IssueTime being hosted on @action on October 6th! A panel of  industry experts (Laura Mather, Joe Gerstandt, Dr. Bryant Marks, and Tanya Odom) address the issues of Implicit Bias that we’re facing today. 

https://action.tumblr.com/post/165978147156/unconscious-biaswhether-its-targeting-race#notes

[pbsnature]

In Honor of Earth Day 2017: PBS Nature’s Ask Box is now open for the next round of Tumblr’s IssueTime on Conservation and Climate Change!

NATURE  is so excited to work with Tumblr and the wonderful scientists, biologists and filmmakers who’ve agreed to be on our panel so that you can learn more about the environmental issues we’re currently facing.  Dig deeper into the issues with full episodes of NATURE, now streaming!

The Panelists:

Arnaud  Desbiez  is a conservation biologist who has been conducting research in the Brazilian Pantanal since 2002. He has worked on topics ranging from sustainable use of  resources ��to  species  ecological  research and community  development  programs. In  the  Brazilian  Pantanal,  his  work  focused  on  the interaction  between  native  and alien  species, the sustainable  use  of  forage  resources  and  the  ecology  of  several mammal species.   In 2010 he started and now coordinates the Pantanal Giant Armadillo Project. Arnaud is featured in our most recent episode, Hotel Armadillo.

Patrick Gonzalez is Principal Climate Change Scientist of the U.S. National Park Service and a Visiting Scholar at the University of California, Berkeley. A forest ecologist, he conducts applied research on climate change and works with national parks to adapt resource management to climate change. Patrick has conducted and published field research on climate change in Africa, Latin America, and the United States and has served as a lead author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the organization awarded a share of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize. Watch our recent episode about the challenges facing Yosemite, now streaming!

Chris Morgan is an ecologist, conservationist, educator, TV host/narrator and film producer specializing in international bear research and conservation. For more than 20 years, he has worked as a wildlife researcher, wilderness guide and environmental educator on every continent where bears exist. Chris  has narrated 13 films for Nature and was host and narrator for Siberian Tiger Quest as well as being the featured character in Nature’s three-part series ‘Bears of the Last Frontier.’ In 2015, he was also host and narrator for Nature’s Three-part ‘Animal Homes’ series and was featured in ‘The Last Orangutan Eden.’ Learn more about Chris’ story with this interview we conducted with him.

Learn More about Chris

Joe Pontecorvo is an award-winning producer, writer, and cinematographer. For the past two decades, he has traveled the globe; tracking Siberian tigers in the Russian Far East, living among grizzlies in the wilds of Alaska, and following orangutans through Indonesia’s peat swamp forest. All told, he has produced 14 broadcast documentaries for multiple networks, including National Geographic, Discovery Channel, and PBS. For his most recent project before ‘Yosemite,’ PBS Nature’s ‘Snow Monkeys,’ Joe and his wife, Nim Pontecorvo, spent nearly two years filming a troop of Japanese macaques in Japan’s Shiga Highlands. Go behind-the-scenes into the making of that film here.

Learn More about Joe

Happy Earth Day! Check back Saturday for answers! 

[voidstarzero]

DPoP with Spring Boot and Spring Security

Solid is an exciting project that I first heard about back in January. Its goal is to help “re-decentralize” the Web by empowering users to control access to their own data. Users set up “pods” to store their data, which applications can securely interact with using the Solid protocol. Furthermore, Solid documents are stored as linked data, which allows applications to interoperate more easily, hopefully leading to less of the platform lock-in that exists with today’s Web.

I’ve been itching to play with this for months, and finally got some free time over the past few weekends to try building a Solid app. Solid's authentication protocol, Solid OIDC, is built on top of regular OIDC with a mechanism called DPoP, or "Demonstration of Proof of Possession". While Spring Security makes it fairly easy to configure OIDC providers and clients, it doesn't yet have out-of-the-box support for DPoP. This post is a rough guide on adding DPoP to a Spring Boot app using Spring Security 5, which gets a lot of the way towards implementing the Solid OIDC flow. The full working example can be found here.

DPoP vs. Bearer Tokens

What's the point of DPoP? I will admit it's taken me a fair amount of reading and re-reading over the past several weeks to feel like I can grasp what DPoP is about. My understanding thus far: If a regular bearer token is stolen, it can potentially be used by a malicious client to impersonate the client that it was intended for. Adding audience information into the token mitigates some of the danger, but also constrains where the token can be used in a way that might be too restrictive. DPoP is instead an example of a "sender-constrained" token pattern, where the access token contains a reference to an ephemeral public key, and every request where it's used must be additionally accompanied by a request-specific token that's signed by the corresponding private key. This proves that the client using the access token also possesses the private key for the token, which at least allows the token to be used with multiple resource servers with less risk of it being misused.

So, the DPoP auth flow differs from Spring's default OAuth2 flow in two ways: the initial token request contains more information than the usual token request; and, each request made by the app needs to create and sign a JWT that will accompany the request in addition to the access token. Let's take a look at how to implement both of these steps.

Overriding the Token Request

In the authorization code grant flow for requesting access tokens, the authorization process is kicked off by the client sending an initial request to the auth server's authorization endpoint. The auth server then responds with a code, which the client includes in a final request to the auth server's token endpoint to obtain its tokens. Solid OIDC recommends using a more secure variation on this exchange called PKCE ("Proof Key for Code Exchange"), which adds a code verifier into the mix; the client generates a code verifier and sends its hash along with the authorization request, and when it makes its token request, it must also include the original code verifier so that the auth server can confirm that it originated the authorization request.

Spring autoconfigures classes that implement both the authorization code grant flow and the PKCE variation, which we can reuse for the first half of our DPoP flow. What we need to customize is the second half -- the token request itself.

To do this we implement the OAuth2AccessTokenResponseClient interface, parameterized with OAuth2AuthorizationCodeGrantRequest since DPoP uses the authorization code grant flow. (For reference, the default implementation provided by Spring can be found in the DefaultAuthorizationCodeTokenResponseClient class.) In the tokenRequest method of our class, we do the following:

retrieve the code verifier generated during the authorization request

retrieve the code received in response to the authorization request

generate an ephemeral key pair, and save it somewhere the app can access it during the lifetime of the session

construct a JWT with request-specific info, and sign it using our generated private key

make a request to the token endpoint using the above data, and return the result as an OAuth2AccessTokenResponse.

Here's the concrete implementation of all of that. We get the various data that we need from the OAuth2AuthorizationCodeGrantRequest object passed to our method. We then call on RequestContextHolder to get the current session ID and use that to save the session keys we generate to a map in the DPoPUtils bean. We create and sign a JWT which goes into the DPoP header, make the token request, and finally convert the response to an OAuth2AccessTokenResponse.

Using the DPoP Access Token

Now, to make authenticated requests to a Solid pod our app will need access to both an Authentication object (provided automatically by Spring) containing the DPoP access token obtained from the above, as well as DPoPUtils for the key pair needed to use the token.

On each request, the application must generate a fresh JWT and place it in a DPoP header as demonstrated by the authHeaders method below:

private fun authHeaders( authToken: String, sessionId: String, method: String, requestURI: String ): HttpHeaders { val headers = HttpHeaders() headers.add("Authorization", "DPoP $authToken") dpopUtils.sessionKey(sessionId)?.let { key -> headers.add("DPoP", dpopUtils.dpopJWT(method, requestURI, key)) } return headers }

The body of the JWT created by DPoPUtils#dpopJWT contains claims that identify the HTTP method and the target URI of the request:

private fun payload(method: String, targetURI: String) : JWTClaimsSet = JWTClaimsSet.Builder() .jwtID(UUID.randomUUID().toString()) .issueTime(Date.from(Instant.now())) .claim("htm", method) .claim("htu", targetURI) .build()

A GET request, for example, would then look something like this:

val headers = authHeaders( authToken, sessionId, "GET", requestURI ) val httpEntity = HttpEntity(headers) val response = restTemplate.exchange( requestURI, HttpMethod.GET, httpEntity, String::class.java )

A couple of last things to note: First, the session ID passed to the above methods is not retrieved from RequestContextHolder as before, but from the Authentication object provided by Spring:

val sessionId = ((authentication as OAuth2AuthenticationToken) .details as WebAuthenticationDetails).sessionId

And second, we want the ephemeral keys we generate during the token request to be removed from DPoPUtils when the session they were created for is destroyed. To accomplish this, we create an HttpSessionListener and override its sessionDestroyed method:

@Component class KeyRemovalSessionListener( private val dPoPUtils: DPoPUtils ) : HttpSessionListener { override fun sessionDestroyed(se: HttpSessionEvent) { val securityContext = se.session .getAttribute("SPRING_SECURITY_CONTEXT") as SecurityContextImpl val webAuthDetails = securityContext.authentication.details as WebAuthenticationDetails val sessionId = webAuthDetails.sessionId dPoPUtils.removeSessionKey(sessionId) } }

This method will be invoked on user logout as well as on session timeout.

[action]

Pretty basic question here: I want to get more involved, especially in local politics, but have no idea where to start! How do you keep abreast of any number of city, county, and state elections? Furthermore, what is a reliable way to educate yourself on topics, candidates, and positions that you may be un-informed on? It feels like so much of politics is a smear campaign, it's hard to know who or what to believe.

The importance of state and local offices is particularly relevant in our current environment where the Supreme Court is giving increased power to state legislatures on decisions like health care rights, voting rights, the environment, jobs,  and more. 

Other local offices, like school boards, greatly impact the lives of students as they can determine school curriculum and textbooks, budgets and spending priorities, and more.

What happens in state and local races that also directly impacts your life.

While it may feel like your hard work is just one drop in the bucket, please know that with every election we are one step closer to obtaining a just future for us all. 

Will you join us by checking your voter registration right now? It  takes only a few minutes. weall.vote/tumblr

[itviconsultants]

PAAS withdraws threat to disrupt Rahul Gandhi's meeting - The Indian Express

The Indian Express PAAS withdraws threat to disrupt Rahul Gandhi's meeting The Indian Express Hardik Patel-led Patidar Anamat Andolan Samiti (PAAS) has withdrawn its threat to disrupt a public meeting of Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi in Surat after a marathon four-hour meeting with the state Congress leaders here on Monday. The threat ... Is PAAS' Hardik Patel ready to join Congress?Ahmedabad Mirror Gujarat assembly elections: Patidar, Congress leaders fail to reach deal on quota issueEconomic Times Congress, Patidar body fail to strike deal on reservation issueTimes of India Outlook India -News18 all 35 news articles » http://dlvr.it/PyPmZq #cloudcomputing #saas #iaas #paas

[glblctzn]

What is it like for children in refugee camps? I imagine it must be confusing and difficult, especially if their families are separated.

Our Sesame Workshop and IRC teams just returned from Jordan last month. Spending time with refugee children and their parents and caregivers is at once heartbreaking and heartwarming. Many have experienced unimaginable loss – the loss of parents, siblings, and friends, and the loss of their homes and a feeling of safety. But, in the face of remarkable tragedy, all parents and caregivers simply want what’s best for their children – to give them the tools they need to thrive.

The international humanitarian system has failed to prioritize refugee children’s educational needs in a serious way – but Sesame Workshop and IRC are partnering to change that. By pairing IRC’s expertise and on the ground infrastructure serving refugee families – from health care workers and home visitations, to healing classrooms and child care centers – and Sesame’s proven ability to create engaging, educational content, we know we can bring children and families the support they need and deserve. 

Many refugee families don’t live in official refugee camps – in fact, most live in informal tented settlements or within host communities in surrounding countries. The mass media content Sesame Workshop is developing will also promote mutual respect and understanding, both within displaced communities and between refugees and the host communities in which most refugees live.

Elmo’s new friends in Jordan told Elmo that they had to leave their homes because it wasn’t safe for them to stay. And that made them really sad and sometimes scared. A lot of them don’t even get to go to school at all anymore. That would make Elmo really sad. Elmo tried to help his new friends feel better by being kind to them the way Elmo’s friends on Sesame Street are kind to him. And Elmo hopes his new friends get settled into new homes and schools soon!

[okgooglenews]

Kate Upton Lands Third Sports Illustrated Swim Cover: 'I Have a Completely Different Mindset About My Body' - PEOPLE.com

USA TODAY Kate Upton Lands Third Sports Illustrated Swim Cover: 'I Have a Completely Different Mindset About My Body' PEOPLE.com Kate Upton's bikini-clad reign in the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit issue continues! The 24-year-old model, who first landed a cover spot on SI Swim in 2012 when she was 19, returns to this year's issue, marking her third time on the front cover of the ... Kate Upton Lands Cover of Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue for Third TimeUs Weekly IT'S OFFICIAL: Kate Upton is our SI Swimsuit 2017 cover girl!Sports Illustrated This Woman Edits Sports Illustrated's Swimsuit IssueTIME Hollywood Life -E! Online -CNN -Express.co.uk all 88 news articles » http://dlvr.it/NNTwjN

[plannedparenthood]

So what can we do? This is going to affect many women in regards to getting birth control. Also because of the attack on Obamacare a lot of people are going to be put out of Healthcare making the situation even worse. So what more can we do besides calling congressmen and seeing letters?

Calling your congress person is definitely a good start! But another way to get engaged is to join us over at IStandWithPP.org which will allow you to take actions against an ACA repeal, Planned Parenthood Defund etc.